Make these further particular spiced apple cupcakes as a present for household and buddies at Christmastime. Children will love getting concerned within the adorning

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:30 minutes
  • Cook dinner:35 minutes
  • plus chilling
• Extra effort
• Makes 12

• Freezable (uniced)
• Vegetarian

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Elements

• 125g butter, softened
• 100g caster sugar
• 50g brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 150g apples, peeled, cored and grated (ready weight)
• 2 tsp blended spice
• 1 tsp floor ginger

For the buttercream icing

• 200g butter, softened
• 400g icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste

For the decorations

• inexperienced and brown fondant
• 2 tbsp icing sugar for dusting
• crimson and inexperienced sanding sugar (discover on-line or in specialist retailers)

You’ll additionally want

• 12 paper cupcake instances, 6 crimson and 6 inexperienced

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Technique

• STEP 1

  First, make the decorations. Roll out the inexperienced fondant on a floor dusted with the sugar to a ½cm thickness. Reduce out 12 small ‘leaves’ utilizing a cutter or knife. Put aside on some baking parchment. Roll the brown fondant into 12 x 1cm ‘stalks’. Put aside with the leaves.

• STEP 2

  Warmth the oven to 180C/160C fan/gasoline 4. Line six holes of a 12-hole cupcake tin with crimson instances, and the opposite six with inexperienced. For the cake batter, beat the butter and each sugars with an electrical whisk till mild and fluffy. Slowly combine within the eggs, then fold within the flour, baking powder, grated apple and spices till totally integrated.

• STEP 3

  Fill the instances three-quarters full and bake for 30-35 minutes, or till golden and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clear. Go away to chill utterly within the tin. In the meantime, make the icing. Beat the butter till mild and creamy, then add the sugar and vanilla, and beat for five minutes extra till fluffy and pale.

• STEP 4

  Spoon the icing right into a piping bag fitted with a big spherical nozzle. Working from the surface in direction of the centre, pipe the icing in a swirl over the cupcakes, making use of a great quantity of stress to the bag. Use a small palette knife to easy the icing into neat domes, then chill the cupcakes for 30 minutes to agency up.

• STEP 5

  Tip the crimson and inexperienced sanding sugars into separate bowls. Dip the tops of the cupcakes with the crimson instances into the crimson sugar, and people with inexperienced instances into the inexperienced sugar, turning to totally coat the icing.

• STEP 6

  Make little indentations within the prime of the icing for the fondant stalks, and add the leaves round them.